The Last Great Australian Adventurer: Ben Carlin’s epic journey around the world by amphibious jeep

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Author Gordon Bass doesn’t flinch from showing how difficult Carlin could be. Drinking, smoking, taking amphetamines to stay awake, he eventually made it back to Montreal in 1958, from where his official journey had started. It had taken 10 years to travel those 50,000 miles with a variety of co-pilots, including the second of his three wives.